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recruiting assistance to employers, assists job seekers with resumes <br />and job searches and offers a wide array of other various services. <br />Under North Carolina's Work First initiative, federal Temporary <br />Assistance for Needy Families [TANF] funds are utilized through <br />programs that emphasize job skills and services aimed at enhancing <br />TANF recipients' ability to provide for the needs of their families. <br />Additional workforce development activities are available to a broader <br />cross section of County residents to better prepare the local workforce <br />to take advantage of new jobs within the County. <br />b. Priority Needs <br />Need <br />Priority <br />Handicapped Services <br />High <br />Transportation Services <br />High <br />Substance Abuse Services <br />High <br />Employment Training <br />High <br />Health Services <br />High <br />Other Public Services <br />High <br />B. Infrastructure /Public Improvements <br />Providing essential services such as transportation, water, and sewer service <br />to Chapel Hill and Orange County residents requires an infrastructure system <br />that balances the reliable performance of existing systems with the need to <br />build system capacity necessary to accommodate future growth. <br />a. Status of Existing Infrastructure <br />Water & Sewer <br />Orange County's water needs are met by four independent providers: <br />• Orange Water and Sewer Authority (serving Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro) <br />• Town of Hillsborough (serving Hillsborough) <br />• Orange - Alamance Water System /Efland Sewer System <br />(serving rural western Orange and eastern Alamance County) <br />• Graham - Mebane Water System /Town of Mebane (serving <br />Mebane) <br />In general, these water systems appear poised to meet the needs of <br />Orange County residents well into the future. Forward - thinking <br />leadership has secured additional water sources both in the form of <br />expanded reservoirs (an OWASA planned expansion will add 2.8 billion <br />gallons to its Stone Quarry Reservoir) and through inter - agency and <br />inter - governmental agreements ( OWASA reached an agreement in <br />2005 to purchase water from the City of Burlington). <br />Roads & Transportation Systems <br />Interstate Highways I -40 and I -85 pass through Orange County. <br />Additionally, over 750 miles of state - maintained highways travel <br />Y 2013 -2014 Action Plan 47 <br />